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...anachronistic calendar to change. Today through tomorrow at noon, log on to the UC website and vote yes on this important proposition. The UC’s proposal calls for beginning the 2008-2009 school year 13 days earlier in September and ending the fall exam period on Dec. 22. The proposed calendar also preserves reading period and ends the academic year earlier in May, bringing Harvard in line with peer universities. The highlight of the plan is an extended winter break that lasts until Jan. 19—thus eliminating the stress of looming papers and exams during vacation...
...mental health professionals in Blacksburg, Va., arranged to have Cho committed to a state psychiatric facility. Cho's brief hospitalization for suspected mental illness was disclosed this morning by Virginia Tech police chief Wendell Flinchum, who said Cho was taken to St. Albans psychiatric hospital in Radford, Va., on Dec. 13 of that year after two women students (neither of whom was among Cho's shooting victims) called campus police complaining that Cho had made troubling contacts with them. A third person - identified last night on CNN as a suite mate of Cho's - had also told police...
...UC’s Calendar Reform Act calls for both the fall and spring examination periods to be shortened by two days each, with reading periods kept virtually intact. Fall term exams in 2008 would end on Dec. 22, with the break lasting until Jan. 19, 2009. The school year would end on May 12—a week and a half before the date set by the current calendar...
Last Monday, the UC cited health concerns, scheduling difficulties, energy savings, and student approval in a 10,000-word position paper proposing that the fall term end on Dec. 22 in the 2008-2009 school year...
...report, submitted by the Undergraduate Council (UC) on Monday, proposes a revised academic calendar, in which the fall semester would begin on Sept. 2 and final exams would take place before winter break on Dec. 22, allowing students to enjoy an extended intersession until Jan. 20. The spring semester would...